Improvement in suspenders



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE E. J. GREELEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN sUsPENoERs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4l,295, dated January 19, 1864.

To @ZZ whom t may concern Beit known that I, B. J. GREELEY, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new method of uniting the elastic and inelastic parts or the common suspender used over the shoulders to support clothing usually thus supported; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in producing Suspenders which shall be 'simple and economical in their construction, easily re' pairedywhen injured, and easy and comfortable to the wearer; and to these ends I provide a link, of brass or of any other suitable f material, so shaped as to adj ust the suspenders to the shoulders by simply sewing the ends of the webbing to the link.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction.

I make a link, of brass wire, as shown at Figures l and 2 in the accompanying drawings, so formed that where the Suspenders as cend convergingly from the buttons of the pantaloons and where they descend in like n1anner from the shoulders of the wearer a section of the link shall be presented in such manner that the ends of the flexible material may be attached squarely thereto. Into this link are sewed the elastic webbing at c c, Fig. 3, and inelastic d d. Fig.2 represents the same device as used when the webbing passing over the shoulders is wider than that part which fastens down to the clothing. (See Fig. 4-e e, narrow part; ff, the wide part.)

I am aware that a ring has been used for this purpose, and I am aware also that the long or descending part of the suspender has been similarly attached. These I do not claim; but

What I do claim is- Braces formed by the connection in the rear of the descending and the ascending portions, substantially as herein shown and described.

B. J. GREELEY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM S. PEOR, SAMUEL R. ROWLEY. 

